A question about the proper leads for the jib and spinnaker halyards at the exit box at the top of the forestay. Foghorn (Hull #62) has an original Kenyon spar. The spinnaker exits above the forestay fitting, the two jib halyards vertically in line just below the forestay with the port above the starboard on our setup. We always replace the halyards with messengers each fall but this year we removed the whole fitting this spring because we were repainting the mast. Unfortunately my crew who removed the fitting didn't pay enough attention to the internal leadings of the halyards to know exactly how they should go back together. Our fitting has six sheaves. Three bigger ones where the halyards exit the mast and three smaller ones and a small roller that are set back inside the mast for halyard(s) to fairlead over before dropping down. When we put it back together, we ended up using one big sheave and one little sheave per halyard but this has caused a lot of friction one chute takedowns almost to the point we can't pull down the halyard, plus we were getting a lot of twists in the spin halyard. So yesterday I got to spend an hour or so up the mast taking it all apart, looking it over, scratching my head, making a best guess and then rerunning the lines. (Of course it blowing about ten to fifteen the whole time, deosn't it always?) We now have the jib halyards dropping directly down from their single large sheaves while the spinnaker halyard runs over its large sheave, the three little ones plus a roller at the bottom of the halyard box. This seems to be a big improvement for the spinnaker halyard in ease of use and appears so far not to be detrimental to the jib halyards. It seems logical but does anyone know for sure?
